TRUE SIGHT by Dr. Cuyler

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 25, 1882

TRUE SIGHT

By Dr. Cuyler

Let us hesitate before we condole with a brother who is under the chastisement of our loving Father in Heaven. Be careful how you condole with a man who has lost his money and saved his good name—or congratulate the man who has made a million at the expense of his piety. When a Christian is toppled over from a dizzy and dangerous height, and “brought down to hard-pan,” he is brought down to the solid rock at the same time; in the Valley of Humiliation he has more of the joy of God’s countenance, and wears more of the herb called “heart’s-ease” in his bosom, than he ever did in the days of his giddy prosperity. Sickness has often brought to a man spiritual recovery; suffering has often wrought out for him an exceeding weight of glory. The writer of this paragraph has lately been led through a very shadowy pathway of trial; but it has never been so dark that he could not see to read some precious promises that glowed like diamonds. The adversary tries hard to break our lamp, and to steal our diamonds, in those dark passage-ways of trial. We need good eyesight in such times of trouble, so as not to stumble, or to lose sight of the Comforter, or of the bright light which shines at the end of the way.